Screen‐Space Constraints for Camera Movements: the Virtual Cameraman

This article presents a virtual cameraman which allows us to obtain the whole set of camera movements satisfying user defined constraints specified in the image space and/or constraints on the objects of the scene. This research follows the "Declarative Modelling" approach, which focuses on a 3‐phase modeller concept: description; generation; result exploration.

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